Things you thought you'd never see!

Biggins · 30-01-2009 04:20PM #1

Seeing in the news today that British people are marching for "British jobs for British Workers" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1131708/Stop-stealing-jobs-Thousands-oil-workers-Britain-walk-row-influx-foreign-labour.html or http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7859968.stm), I thought I'd never see such an occurrence on such a mass scale.

Is there anything I am wondering that others here thought they'd never see but have come to pass that have shocked them?

The_Minister · 30-01-2009 04:30PM

so UNITE = BNP now?

Geri Boyle · 30-01-2009 04:31PM

The irony of the guy in the pic with the Manchester United hat on. How many of his beloved players are non British nationals?! :rolleyes:

30-01-2009 04:34PM

Biggins wrote: »

Seeing in the news today that British people are marching for "British jobs for British Workers" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1131708/Stop-stealing-jobs-Thousands-oil-workers-Britain-walk-row-influx-foreign-labour.html or http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7859968.stm), I thought I'd never see such an occurrence on such a mass scale.

Is there anything I am wondering that others here thought they'd never see but have come to pass that have shocked them?

I'm genuinely surprised they haven't done it before now.

phasers · 30-01-2009 04:35PM

Ever notice that foreign workers don't strike and just get on with their work?

Biggins · 30-01-2009 04:35PM

I don't want this thread to be about race. It will get locked in a flash (and probably rightly so).
Its about things that have some to pass that has shocked you.

Like I never thought I'd see the day when our government quickly in days, creates a law so that they don't have to pay back pensioners and the money they had taken from them in the wrong (it was a hospice/home issue).

I never thought I'd see the day when I have to queue over night on our streets to just try and gain a place for my child in a basic school!

Dancor · 30-01-2009 04:36PM

Lousy Imigants

Tom65 · 30-01-2009 04:41PM

Return to the bad old days (economically). Not that I never thought I'd see it, more that I never thought it would happen so quickly, so soon.

Biggins wrote: »

I don't want this thread to be about race. It will get locked in a flash (and probably rightly so).
Its about things that have some to pass that has shocked you.

Racist.

CreepingDeath · 30-01-2009 04:46PM

The greens in government and Dublin bus/public transport reduced.

Cookie_Monster · 30-01-2009 04:47PM

This

justsomebloke · 30-01-2009 04:49PM

phasers wrote: »

Ever notice that foreign workers don't strike and just get on with their work?

yes cause countries like france never have strikies

Biggins · 30-01-2009 04:49PM

Tom65 wrote: »

Racist.

Ya Fenian!

I never thought I'd see ALL our essential services and hard working staff stiffed, cut and doled off!

Naos · 30-01-2009 04:50PM

Why would he go to all the bother of printing out an A4 (Impressive!) banner and write 1st instead of first?

chin_grin · 30-01-2009 04:51PM

Me mickey, <sucks in gut>. Oh wait there it is, crisis over. As you were.

funk-you · 30-01-2009 04:54PM

Someone from Offaly running the country.

-Funk

MagicMarker · 30-01-2009 04:55PM

A black President.

minidazzler · 30-01-2009 04:55PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

A black President.

Mugabe??? He's been President for years.

MagicMarker · 30-01-2009 04:57PM

minidazzler wrote: »

Mugabe??? He's been President for years.

Quiet you.

CreepingDeath · 30-01-2009 05:04PM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

This

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Cookie_Monster · 30-01-2009 05:09PM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Alternative Link

Scumbag detector, I've seen them before

RATM · 30-01-2009 05:19PM

Things that I thought I'd never see ?

Biggins reading the Daily Mail, he's got more sense than that:D

No really if there was one thing I thought Id never see it was two planes flying into two skyscrapers. You just couldn't have made that sh1t up.

Another is women's boxing. It feels normal now but at the time I thought it would never happen.

Yet another was the smoking ban, before it came in I thought 'Ah shure that'll never happen in a pub going culture like Ireland' yet here we are years later with smokefree workplaces.

tony 2 tone · 30-01-2009 05:21PM

Joe the Santa wrote: »

yes cause countries like france never have strikies

They don't count as foreign in their own country :P

Biggins · 30-01-2009 05:23PM

RATM wrote: »

Things that I thought I'd never see ?

Biggins reading the Daily Mail, he's got more sense than that

LOL - I have to keep track of the lunatic fringe.
(Besides - I like reading comics!)

MIN2511 · 30-01-2009 05:24PM

Saw that in the news earlier, tbh i am not suprised there will be loads more of that going on....

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 05:25PM

I never thought I'd see the day that the Elephant Man would be running the country.

truecrippler · 30-01-2009 05:27PM

2 Girls 1 Cup.

Caoimhín · 30-01-2009 05:27PM

I honestly never thought I would see the Daily Mail for sale all over Ireland.

CreepingDeath · 30-01-2009 05:31PM

RATM wrote: »

Another is women's boxing. It feels normal now but at the time I thought it would never happen.

Just hang a "80% off all stock" sign outside a shoe shop for the laugh and you'll see that.

dsmythy · 30-01-2009 05:38PM

tony 2 tone wrote: »

They don't count as foreign in their own country :P

I'd imagine there was plenty of non-French workers striking yesterday in France too.

EDIT: Just realised non-French. Har har.

antodeco · 30-01-2009 05:42PM

Snyper marrying legally.

CreepingDeath · 30-01-2009 05:46PM

antodeco wrote: »

Snyper marrying legally.

I believe his marriage vows were "You're my wife now".

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